"Karen Greenberg, What Actually Keeps Americans Safe,"Tom Dispatch

“When it comes to terrorism and civil liberties after 9/11, that pendulum swung strongly toward the power side of the equation and it has been slow indeed to swing back,” writes Karen J. Greenberg on TomDispatch. “It’s a curious fact that what’s actually lawful and mindful of liberty has turned out to be what also makes us more secure against our enemies. In these years, safety and liberty have been anything but incompatible.”